iThemes Sync

Description

Manage Multiple WordPress Sites From One Dashboard

Manage updates (and much more!) for all your WordPress websites from one central dashboard. With iThemes Sync, there’s no more logging in to multiple websites to perform WordPress admin tasks. Let iThemes Sync be your personal WordPress website assistant with features for WordPress management productivity. See all 20+ ways iThemes Sync will save you time in your WordPress workflow.

Maintained and Supported by iThemes

One Central Dashboard to Save You Loads of Time

iThemes Sync allows you to manage and maintain multiple WordPress websites from one central dashboard. Instead of having to login to each individual website, iTheme Sync gives you one place to view important website data and perform remote WordPress admin actions. Easily switch to iThemes Sync’s individual site view to perform site-specific admin actions such as running WordPress plugin and theme updates, making remote WordPress backups and more.

No More Logging In To Multiple WordPress Websites – Logging in to multiple websites is tedious and time-consuming. No more keeping up with multiple usernames and passwords. With Sync, you have one dashboard for all your WordPress websites.

Stay On Top of WordPress Updates – WordPress updates are important both for the security and efficiency of WordPress websites. iThemes Sync totally changes the way you update your WordPress sites—now you can update dozens of sites with click.

Duplicate Pages & Posts Remotely – Once clicked, you’ll be taken to a new, duplicate post or page on your website.

Remotely Login to WordPress & Switch Between User Accounts – Quickly jump to the WordPress Admin dashboard of your WordPress site where you’ll be instantly logged in from iThemes Sync. You can also switch between any WordPress user account registered on the site without sharing password info.

Features Designed for Freelancers and Agencies

Sync Pro was made for anyone managing multiple WordPress sites. If you’re building sites for clients, you’ll love how Sync makes caring for client sites easier and more profitable.

WordPress Maintenance Reports – Sync Pro includes in-depth WordPress maintenance reporting to show the work involved in maintaining WordPress websites. Email clients beautiful HTML email reports with a summary of update actions you took to keep their site running smoothly.

Customize the WordPress dashboard for clients/users (Pro) – With Sync Pro, you get Client Dashboard, a WordPress role manager that controls which menu items your clients see in their WordPress dashboard. Don’t want them have access to plugins, themes or settings? Simplify their dashboard so they only see what they need — like posts and pages.

Show/Hide Sync From the WP Dashboard – To keep your clients or other site users from messing with your Sync authentication or removing the plugin, you can choose to hide or show the plugin in the WordPress dashboard of each site you manage with Sync.

Share Your Sync Dashboard with Another User – If you have other people on your team that you’d like to task with helping you maintain sites, this feature is a great way help you easily delegate your workload to other team members.

Site Notes and Tags – Sync’s Notes feature is a handy way to keep notations about your Synced sites. For example, if you added customizations to theme or plugin files that could be lost with an update, add a reminder. Tag business sites, personal sites, client sites, live, non-live or however you want to be able identify your sites.

WordPress Security & Monitoring

Two-factor Authentication – Add an extra layer of protection to your Sync dashboard login with two-factor authentication. Once enabled, Sync will require both a password AND an SMS code sent to your mobile device to log in to the Sync Dashboard.

WordPress Uptime Monitoring – Monitor WordPress uptime and know immediately if one of your websites goes down with uptime notification emails. View uptime stats such as total uptime percentage, total downtime, and number of downtimes for WordPress performance monitoring.

WordPress Updates

Daily Notification Emails – Get a daily summary of available WordPress updates as a helpful reminder to log in and run updates. Customize the delivery time your daily notification emails to fit your schedule.

One-Click Update All – View a summary of all available updates for all your websites and then update them all with one click.

View Plugin Changelogs – View update logs that include all updates made in Sync, including the date of the update, previous version number and new version number.

View Updates by Site – The in-depth individual site view gives you a detailed view of the available updates for that site, with more WordPress site management action options.

Sort Updates By Theme or Plugin – View a listing of individual theme and plugins you have installed on your websites along with available update information.

Ignore Update Option – If you’ve made customizations to your themes and plugins, an update could overwrite your work. Choose to ignore updates for specific themes and plugins.

WordPress Maintenance Reports for Clients (Pro)

Show Clients the Value of What You Do – Detailed website reports are one of the best ways to show clients the value of a monthly WordPress maintenance plan. Sync Pro’s WordPress Maintenance Reports handle the hard work of compiling all the update actions you took, so you can justify the value of what you do.

You can manage 10 sites totally free for iThemes Sync. If you need additional sites, you can add more sites to your Sync plan. Some features including Client Dashboard and WordPress Maintenance Reports are Pro-only features and not included in the 10-site free plan.

Do you offer support for free users?

Yes. We handle support for free iThemes Sync users both from the WordPress.org forum and from the iThemes Help Desk. The iThemes Help Desk offers private, ticketed support to protect your privacy.

Is iThemes Sync secure?

Yes. We develop and maintain iThemes Sync according to strict WordPress security standards. We take security seriously; so much so, we have an in-house WordPress security team and have our own WordPress security plugin with over 1 million active installs.

To help keep access to iThemes Sync secure, we strongly suggest enabling two-factor authentication for your iTheme Sync account. Using two-factor authentication for your Sync login will help ensure that only you have access to the websites in Sync. Because iThemes Sync allows you to perform WordPress administrator tasks such as installing and uninstalling themes and plugins, adding WordPress user accounts, logging into the WordPress dashboard and more, securing your iThemes Sync account is as important as securing your WordPress administrator account login.

Does iThemes Sync work with WordPress.com sites?

No. iThemes Sync only works with self-hosted WordPress sites.

Help! I’m having problems adding a site to Sync.

iThemes Sync includes an automatic “Add Site” prompt when you first login to the Sync dashboard. If this authentication method fails, try manually installing the iThemes Sync plugin on your WordPress site. Make sure to create an iThemes account here and then follow the prompt from the Sync plugin to add your credentials. If you still need help, please open a ticket at the iThemes Help Desk.

Reviews

iThemes Sync is an excellent tool, I’m using to manage the sites of my clients together with my own wp sites.
It saves me so much time to update plugins and see what’s going on where.
Great job guys! I con only recommend it!